A careful review of the data reveals an increase in political detention and imprisonment in Venezuela—often without trial—and illustrates the justifications the government uses to silence its opponents.
Mientras la crisis humanitaria en Venezuela va en aumento, el silencio regional solamente ha sido quebrado por las denuncias del Secretario General de la OEA. Pero la responsabilidad de proteger obliga a los países a intervenir cuando se vulneran los derechos de una población.
The roots of Venezuela’s food insecurity stretch back more than a century. But it took the current government’s severely misguided policies to bring the country to the brink of starvation.
Under President Trump’s expansion of the Global Gag Rule, foreign NGOs that provide information about or support abortion are banned from receiving any form of U.S. global health assistance. The effects will extend beyond the right to choose.
The debate should no longer be about how democratic or authoritarian the government of Nicolas Maduro has become. It should be how criminal it’s become—a question that opens up a whole new set of policy challenges.
Pan-hemispheric solidarity and unity has long been a dream of independence fighters, politicians, academics and dreamers. Given the state of the Americas today, you can forget about it.
China’s dramatic growth and influence in the region is challenging the capacity of Latin America and Caribbean governments to set their own economic course and develop sustainably.
President Trump’s row with Mexico has placed U.S. cooperation with its southern neighbors in jeopardy—and with it U.S. national interests and security. But it’s not too late to change course.
A study that originally poked holes in the “alternative facts” of the left now shows the folly and danger of the Trump administration’s immigration and trade policies.
Some of the people slated to enter the administration have made a career peddling theories of Islamist threats in our hemisphere. There are genuine reasons for concern, but not for the disproven assertions many have been pitching for years.
